Notification of Changes of Top Management
April 20, 2015
This is a notification of the appointments of top management made at today's meeting of the Shimadzu Corporation Board of Directors. A formal decision regarding these personnel will be made following approval at the Annual Shareholders Meeting planned for late June of this year and a subsequent Board of Directors meeting. Akira NAKAMOTO (69 years [...]
April 20, 2015
BALTIMORE, MD -- Qualyst Transporter Solutions, LLC (Qualyst) and Hepregen Corporation announced today, at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists/International Transporter Consortium ("AAPC/ITC") Joint Workshop on Drug Transporters, the launch of their first co-developed and co-labeled transporter kit for in vitro analysis of chemical transporter proteins in the human liver. The launch of this first [...]
DuPont Diagnostics Announces VWR as Exclusive Distributor in the United States
April 20, 2015
WILMINGTON, Del. — DuPont Diagnostics, a part of DuPont Nutrition & Health, has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with VWR (NASDAQ: VWR), a leading, global, independent provider of products, services and solutions to laboratory and production facilities. This agreement allows VWR exclusive rights within the United States to sell the DuPont™ BAX® System Q7 instrument, [...]
BGI Launches a Powerful and Reliable New Cloud Computing Platform for Genomic Data Analysis
April 20, 2015
Boston MA and Shenzhen China -- BGI, the world’s largest genomics organization, announces the launch of a powerful and highly secure cloud computing platform for genomic data analysis, known as BGI Online. BGI Online provides a one-stop solution for managing NGS projects and enables users to create and run complex data analysis pipelines easily. BGI [...]
April 20, 2015
GAITHERSBURG, Md. -– OpGen, Inc., a molecular testing and bioinformatics company, today announced the expansion of its executive management team with the appointments of former Foundation Medicine (NASDAQ: FMI) executive Kevin Krenitsky, M.D. as president, and Timothy C. Dec as interim chief financial officer. With more than 15 years of experience leading and managing global [...]
SYGNIS Announces Global Launch of its Second Product Line: SunScript™ Reverse Transcriptase
April 20, 2015
Madrid, Spain and Heidelberg, Germany -– SYGNIS AG (Frankfurt: LIO1; ISIN: DE000A1RFM03; Prime Standard) today announced the global launch of SunScriptTM Reverse Transcriptase, the Company’s second product line for a multitude of applications in molecular biology and diagnostics research. SYGNIS’ SunScript™ product line covers a series of kits based on novel proprietary engineered reverse transcriptase [...]
New Innovations and Research Collaborations in the Cloud Drive Era of Precision Medicine
April 20, 2015
PHILADELPHIA -- Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today unveiled new innovations for research aimed at addressing the growing need for early detection, better prognosis, and more effective cancer treatments in the future. These new products and presentations are being featured at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2015 Annual Meeting, [...]
New GeneChip® WT Pico Kit Prepares Array Target from Picogram Amounts of RNA
April 19, 2015
Santa Clara, CA -- Affymetrix (NASDAQ: AFFX) introduces GeneChip® WT Pico Kit for gene expression array target preparation from as little as 100 pg of total RNA input. Working with as few as 10 cells, the new kit offers a high degree of flexibility and precision, enabling analyses of samples too small for other methods [...]
New XFp Cell Energy Phenotype Test Determines Metabolic Potential
April 19, 2015
Billerica, MA -– Seahorse Bioscience, the world leader in tools for cell metabolism research, introduces the XFp Cell Energy Phenotype Test Kit. The kit enables a unique real-time assay on live cells that determines their baseline metabolic phenotype and potential. This one-hour test measures both the mitochondrial and glycolytic activity of the cells, and compares [...]
New Affymetrix Software Helps Identify Cancer Driver Events
April 19, 2015
Santa Clara, CA -– Affymetrix (NASDAQ: AFFX) will highlight its new Concurrent Molecular Analysis Profiling (CoMAP™) capability at the 2015 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. The program enables cancer researchers to gain rapid insight into the functional impact of DNA copy-number alterations by combining whole-genome copy-number data with gene expression profiles [...]
